SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - Businesses thrive or fail based on their ability to identify, and act upon Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This report is a roadmap for business management and decision makers who desire to achieve those goals through Best-in-Class (BIC) use of KPIs.
Posted: September 12, 2008 | Published: September 11, 2008


Topics:  Balanced Scorecards | Benchmark Testing | Best Practices | Dashboards | Performance Testing | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | Six Sigma

BOOK - This e-book contains best practices for extending the Lean enterprise, managing Lean expertise and education with an organization, managing performance across operations, and effectively leveraging technology.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Best Practices | Cost Benefit Analysis | ERP | Inventory Management | Inventory Management Software | Knowledge Management | Manufacturing | Supply Chains | Warehouse Management

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper provides an overview of what performance attribution is and how it works. It also analyzes two of the most commonly used attribution models in their approach and in the results they yield.
Posted: August 7, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Asset Management (Finance) | Asset Management Services | Benchmark Testing | Indexing (Information Management) | Investments | Model Driven Architecture | Political Environment | Portfolio Management (Finance) | Project Portfolio Management

WHITE PAPER - Companies are failing at an unprecedented rate. Read this paper to learn how Kalido's Active Information Management software can help companies accommodate the kinds of information required to stave off failure.
Posted: June 4, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Data Warehouses | ERP | Information Management | Internet | Master Data Management | Reporting Software

BOOK - Conserving energy, reducing floor space, and managing utility costs are becoming major priorities for IT organizations. In this study by Aberdeen, over 175 organizations were surveyed about their opinions on Best-in-Class practices for IT organizations.
Posted: May 7, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Cooling Equipment | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Centers | Energy Industries | Knowledge Management | Policy Server Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity

BOOK - New Aberdeen research reveals that customer data quality is a sales and marketing leadership issue. Aberdeen found that over 70% of Best-in-Class firms are driven to improve customer data quality by competitive and profitability pressures ...
Posted: March 27, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Customer Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Mining | Data Quality | Marketing

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains some of the metrics that have been used to describe the efficiency of data center physical infrastructure and suggests which metric is the most effective.
Posted: February 6, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Business Process Management | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | EPA | Infrastructure Management | UPS

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Despite the attention they get, storage benchmarks can be manipulated to unfairly compare products with vastly different configurations.
Posted: October 18, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Cache | Performance Testing | Storage Systems

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - VeriTest has perfected technology that gives us an amazingly accurate "inside out" view of Internet service providers. These tests do what real enterprise organizations do, dialing up providers and accessing the World Wide Web.
Posted: December 28, 2004 | Published: December 1, 2004


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | ISP | IT Outsourcing Services

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Benchmarking means a number of different things at VeriTest we're the world's largest independent developer of benchmark software and we perform benchmark tests of Internet service providers through our Internet Benchmark Service.
Posted: December 28, 2004 | Published: December 1, 2004


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | IT Outsourcing Services

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - VeriTest's Internet BenchMark Service makes the recognized leader in independent rating and measurement of service provider infrastructure.
Posted: December 28, 2004 | Published: December 1, 2004


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | ISP | IT Outsourcing Services